One of my earliest memories of being managed was working for McDonald’s Corporation during high school. One evening on the closing shift, I found this doodad, this gadget that didn’t look like it was of any importance. I made a judgement, and I threw the doodad away.
Success-Minded Leader
Kevin Barrett, Certified Leadership Coach and President of True North Professional Development, was a recent guest on The Sparking Entrepreneur Podcast.
Take a listen.
Completing the Miller Success Factors Assessment (MSFA) was an eye-opening exercise for our Guest Blogger, Ryan Carlson. The MSFA helped Ryan identify where he could turn his weaknesses into strengths and avoid his strengths becoming weaknesses.
Ryan Carlson, graduate of our Success-Minded Leader program, says the program helped him recognize that while he had passion for his work, it was important for him to identify where and how he wanted to drive success, and ultimately results.
After going through the Success-Minded Leader program, Guest Blogger Ryan Carlson says it is impossible to not recognize the immense power in being able to control one’s response to the world by leveraging the mindsets shared in the program.
In her speech at the 10th Annual USC Women’s Conference, my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Julie Miller shared the story of an experience she had with her high school guidance counselor, ‘Mr. Earl’.
One of the more challenging cognitive biases for many leaders is the Fundamental Attribution Error, the human tendency to make an assumption about the cause of someone’s actions.
In our earlier blog post, The Science of First Impressions, we discussed the uphill climb we face IF we make a negative first impression. In this post, we’ll discuss the steps that research shows can help us make a BETTER first impression.
We’ve all had the experience of meeting someone for the first time and formulating our first impression of that person. We even wonder what impression they have of us. That first impression is extremely important to us as human beings – more than we may even realize.
Having to speak in a meeting or doing a presentation in front of a group of people can shake some of us to the core. We can appear as though we are not confident in what we are saying and that can dilute the message we are trying to get across.